how to make a wait function

making the game wait a period of time before running the rest of the code

I think...

wait = function(t)
  savedTime = system.time()
  while system.time()-savedTime< t
    system.time()
  end
end

maybe..?
There is also builtin function called sleep but that makes whole game wait if not called from specific thread like..

name_of_thread = do
  //do code
  sleep 2 seconds
  //do the rest of code
end
//or
name_of_thread = sleep 1000 do //some code end

and you can control thread by doing

name_of_thread.pause()

name_of_thread.resume()

name_of_thread.stop() 

I hope that I explained it good enough.

init = function()
  after 5 seconds do
    text = "Hello World"
    color = "green"
  end
  text = "Wait"
  color = "red"
end

update = function()
end

draw = function()
  screen.clear()
  screen.drawText( text, 0, 0, 30, color )
end